moving your mother, laura, back to new york from l.a. >> uh. >> stress. stress can be a factor. >> it can be. it can be. >> did you watch this carefully? >> yeah, you know, i do a lot to try to ameliorate the stress. >> uh. >> yoga, meditation, walks in central park. >> uh-huh. >> we get away to beautiful places like san francisco as often as we can. >> uh-huh. >> and we have a house in italy when we -- that we go to. >> we'll get to that in a second. >> okay. >> first of all, michael, this is -- . >> yes. >> this is your first novel. i didn't finish it and i'm like -- there is a lot of stuff in here i'm thinking oh, oh, he wrote that about them. that is true, sounds like them d. you ed it yourself a bit -- edit it yourself as to what went? or do you have to live with it? >> i wrote the book, a mantr awhile writing the book was no one will ever read this. [ laughter ] that kind of frees you up. >> uh-huh. >> and it's, you know, a lot of the stuff in the book is fiction. it's fiction. >> uh-huh. >> it's not about mike and jill, it's about her being annie and there are a lot of similarities
